Key events
Team news
The team news is here! Manchester City make three changes from the League Cup final with Jess Park, Kerolin and Lily Murphy coming into the starting XI for Aoba Fujino, Bunny Shaw and Vivianne Miedema. Fujino and Shaw are injured, while Miedema drops to the bench.
Man City: Yamashita, Casparij, Prior, Aleixandri (C), Ouahabi, Hasegawa, Roord, Park, Kerolin, Murphy, Fowler
Subs: Keating, Startup, Layzell, Miedema, Coombs, Wienroither, Blindkilde Brown
Chelsea, meanwhile, make two changes with Keira Walsh and Aggie Beever-Jones coming into the starting team for Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Sjoeke Nüsken. There is also no Sam Kerr in the matchday squad.
Chelsea: Hampton; Bronze, Björn, Bright, Baltimore; Walsh, Cuthbert, Macario; Beever-Jones, Ramirez, James.
Subs: Spencer, Cox, Nüsken, Lawrence, Kaptein, Rytting Kaneryd, Charles, Hamano, Jean-Francois, Brown.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the first leg of the Women’s Champions League quarter-final between Manchester City and Chelsea.
It is also the second game of four that the two clubs will play against each other over a period of 12 days. The first was the League Cup final which Chelsea won 2-1.
City have been hit with injury news before tonight’s match with both Bunny Shaw and Aoba Fujino ruled out with muscle injuries. For Chelsea, Sam Kerr has been added to the club’s Women’s Champions League squad for the knockout stages but it is unclear if she will feature tonight.
The team news will drop shortly so stay updated before kick-off at 8pm GMT.
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